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Analysis on Symmetric Cones, by Jacques Faraut and Adam Koranyi, Oxford Uni- Versity Press, London and New York, 1994, Xii + 382 Pp., $85.00, ISBN 0-198-53477-9 BULLETIN (New Series) OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Volume 35, Number 1, January 1998, Pages 77–86 S 0273-0979(98)00733-2 Analysis on symmetric cones, by Jacques Faraut and Adam Koranyi, Oxford Uni- versity Press, London and New York, 1994, xii + 382 pp., $85.00, ISBN 0-198-53477-9 Introduction. To quote from the preface, “The purpose of this book is to give a self-contained exposition of the geometry of symmetric cones, and to develop analysis on these cones and on the complex tube domains associated with them.” Who better to write such a book than two of the foremost researchers on symmetric cones and related areas of analysis and geometry? In my view, they have written a book that is significant for a number of reasons. The topics treated in the book are important. For example, the subject of analysis◦ on symmetric cones has substantial interfaces with many areas of mathe- matics, including number theory, Lie theory and geometry, classical analysis, partial differential equations, operator theory, group representations, and harmonic anal- ysis. In addition, analysis on particular families of symmetric cones such as matrix cones or Lorentz cones (see below) arises in multivariate statistics, mathematical physics, statistical mechanics, and even theoretical aspects of molecular chemistry. The book takes the reader right up to the cutting edge of current research. ◦ The book fills a void in the mathematics literature. For, in the past, one would have◦ found it demanding and time consuming to learn this area of mathematics from scattered journal articles, lecture notes, or highly sophisticated algebraic treatises.1 In particular, this book is the first to provide a complete and self-contained expo- sition of the structure theory of symmetric cones from the perspective of real and complex analysis, as well as the first comprehensive exposition of noncommutative analysis on symmetric cones and related domains that applies to all symmetric cones in complete generality, without recourse to the classification of symmetric cones.2 The reader of this review who is already conversant with the algebra and geom- etry of symmetric cones probably does not need a review; the preface and table of contents, together with the paragraphs that introduce each chapter and the notes at the end of each chapter, will convey the contents and flavor of the book. Thus, this review is written primarily for the practicing mathematician or statistician who knows little about symmetric cones, but who may find their study interesting and of value in research. To this end, the first several sections of this review will serve as a brief introduction to the study of symmetric cones. The goal is to pique the reader’s interest in this fascinating subject. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 22E30, 32M15, 43A85, 17C10; Secondary 43A90, 32A37, 32H99, 33C50, 62H99. 1The geometry of symmetric cones and applications to Lie theory and analysis owes much to M. Koecher. His lecture notes [6] have been a standard reference in the subject for over 30 years. Another treatment, considerably more algebraic, is contained in the book [9] by I. Satake and is part of a comprehensive Lie theoretic treatment of bounded symmetric domains. Both are excellent references. 2A substantial amount, but far from all, of the analysis described in this book was first worked out for matrix cones and appears in the mathematics and statistics literature (see, for example [8] and [3]). This book extends the development to the general context. c 1998 American Mathematical Society 77 License or copyright restrictions may apply to redistribution; see https://www.ams.org/journal-terms-of-use 78 BOOK REVIEWS Note: In what follows we will refer to the book under review as simply “the book”. Chapter references are to the book. Symmetric cones and Euclidean Jordan algebras [Ch. I-IV]. One should observe at the outset that the study of symmetric cones is closely related to – in fact, inseparable from – the study of a certain kind of nonassociative algebra over the real field known as a Euclidean Jordan algebra. Indeed, the book might well have been titled Analysis on Euclidean Jordan algebras and related domains.Tobe more specific, there is a one-to-one correspondence between symmetric cones and Euclidean Jordan algebras that will be made explicit later in the review. A motivating example: Real matrix space. For the reader who is unfamiliar with the notion of a symmetric cone or Euclidean Jordan algebra,3 it is useful and entirely appropriate to think of a Euclidean Jordan algebra as the conceptual generalization of the matrix space consisting of all real m m symmetric matrices, in which case the associated symmetric cone is the matrix× cone of all symmetric m m matrices that are positive-definite. × Denote by V = Vm =Sym(m; R) the vector space of all real symmetric m m matrices equipped with the inner product x y =tr(xy). Since the product of sym-× metric matrices need not be symmetric, V his| noti closed under matrix multiplication. However, the anti-commutator 1 (1) x y = (xy + yx) ◦ 2 is a well-defined operation on V called the Jordan product or Jordan multiplication, with respect to which V has the structure of a commutative but (for m>1) not associative real algebra. As a substitute for associativity one has the so-called Jordan identity (2) x2 (y x)=(x2 y) x: ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ In terms of the linear transformation L(x)onV defined as Jordan multiplication by x (i.e., L(x)y = x y), identity (2) is recast as the commutation relation ◦ (3) L(x)L(x2)=L(x2)L(x): By standard properties of the trace, the linear transformation L(x)onV is seen to be self-adjoint; i.e., (4) x y z = y x z : h ◦ | i h | ◦ i Next, denote by Ω = Ωm =Pos(m; R) the subset of V of matrices that are positive-definite. Then Ω is an open convex cone in V that is self-dual in the sense that Ω = x V : x y > 0 for all y = 0 in the closure of Ω .Notethat { ∈ h | i 6 } Ω=Pos(m; R) can also be characterized as the connected component of the m m identity matrix " in the set of invertible elements of V . × Finally, one brings in the group theory. Let G =GL+(m; R) be the (connected) real general linear group consisting of all real m m matrices with positive deter- minant. Then each g G acts quadratically on V× by g x = gxgt, and this action is transitive on Ω . Thus,∈ the m m rotation group K =SO(· m)= g G:ggt = " and det g =1 is the isotropy× subgroup of " (i.e., an element g {G ∈lies in K if } ∈ 3What is now called a symmetric cone in older terminology was referred to as a domain of positivity, and what is now known as a Euclidean Jordan algebra was called a formally real Jordan algebra. License or copyright restrictions may apply to redistribution; see https://www.ams.org/journal-terms-of-use BOOK REVIEWS 79 and only if g " = "), and the mapping gK x = g " identifies the homogeneous (symmetric) space· G=K with the cone Ω . In7→ symbols,· (5) Ω ∼= G=K =GL+(m; R)=SO(m) and we say that Ω is homogeneous under the action of G. The general theory. Armed with the above example, we make the following definitions. (i) A Jordan algebra over a field F is a commutative (but in general not asso- ciative) algebra V with identity " that satisfies property (2). When F is the real field and the Jordan algebra is equipped with an inner product relative to which property (4) holds, then one says the Jordan algebra is Euclidean. (ii) Let (V; ) be a finite-dimensional inner product space. A symmetric cone in V is a nonemptyh·|·i open convex cone in V that is self-dual and homogeneous under the automorphism group G = G(Ω), consisting of all invertible linear transforma- tions of V that preserve Ω . (iii) A Jordan algebra is simple if it has no nontrivial ideals, and a symmetric cone is irreducible if it is not the direct product of two or more symmetric cones. Thus, Vm =Sym(m; R)andΩ=Ωm =Pos(m; R) are prototypical examples of a simple Euclidean Jordan algebra and an irreducible symmetric cone, respectively. Indeed, as the following structural results attest, in general a symmetric cone is related to a Euclidean Jordan algebra in exactly the same way that Pos(m; R)is related to Sym(m; R): The correspondence between Ω and V [Ch. III, Sections 2 and 3]. (i) If Ω is a symmetric cone, then the ambient space V carries the structure of a Euclidean Jordan algebra, and Ω is the connected component of the identity " in the set of invertible elements of V . Conversely, if V is a Euclidean Jordan algebra, then the connected component of the identity in the set of invertible elements of V is a symmetric cone. (ii) A symmetric cone is irreducible if and only if the associated Euclidean Jordan algebra is simple. (iii) A Euclidean Jordan algebra decomposes as a direct sum of simple ideals, and a symmetric cone decomposes as a direct sum of irreducible symmetric cones. In short, properties (i)-(iii) reduce the study of symmetric cones to the study of simple Euclidean Jordan algebras. Classification [Ch. V]. The simple Euclidean Jordan algebras were classified by Jordan, von Neumann, and Wigner [5].4 We state the classification in terms of the corresponding symmetric cones: Up to isomorphism, the irreducible symmetric cones fall into four families of so-called classical cones together with one other cone that is said to be exceptional.
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